Come On Animators! Enter Your Short Films!

New York International Independent Film and Video Festival for the best short film submitted exclusively on the internet.

Contest Rules
1) 10 minutes or less total run time
2) 1 gig or less total file size
3) Entries must be completed by October 5th, 2007

THE PRIZE IS $1000.

For more details go to www.moli.com/nyiifvf
or
http://www.moli.com/p/views/v2Wm2DYQMW3_Lzeg1bzASqKg../

Finished Shooting

So, I finished shooting the MOLI commercial last Wednesday, sorry it's taken me so long to post this post. Anyway, I've handed it over to the editors and they'll be cleaning it up. They do great work. Anyway, I'm already in pre-production of the next short, which should begin shooting in about a week or so. so wish me luck. Here's a few more shots from the commercial, which should be premiering online VERY soon. So keep an eye out for updates. Okay, later Gators!

A Few More Stills

Here's some stills from what I shot last night.This will be a fun commercial.

Hippo-Portrait

When I designed Christos Potamus's office, I was thinking in terms of a 4:3 aspect ratio, but when I finally set up the shot with a 16:9 lense, I found that there was a big boring gap in the room, so I quickly threw together this portrait for the wall. Unfortunately you probably won't get to see the whole thing in the commercial, so here it is.I should be wrapping up production tonight. I'll keep you informed.

Irony Strikes Clay-Animation Studio

Where I work, there are some fake, rubber snakes. My wife came over to the studio to help out a little today and I decided to play a trick on her. So I layed one out and called for her. She freaked out as soon as she saw it (it was fairly realistic looking). I approached it slowly and put my hand out to pick it up, she screamed and pleaded with me to leave it alone. But I didn't. It wasn't long after I picked it up that she realized it was a fake and we had a good laugh. Later we had to leave the door to the studio open a little as we carried some stuff inside, when we were done I went to go shut the door and I snake slithered in. It took me a while this time to convince her that a snake had REALLY gotten in. In the end we got it out and it went on it's merry way.
Alternate Title: The Boy Who Cried Snake

Animating Away!

Well, I've been animating like crazy today, and I think all together I have 25 seconds of animation for the commercial so far, it's 50 seconds all together. But the 25 seconds I've animated are probably the most intense (Lot's of lip-sync), and the next 35 seconds of animation should just fly by (still lots of lip-sync, but easier). I should have production completed by Wednesday. And post production should be really quick. This should be fun, I'm excited about it. Here are a couple new stills.

Unrelated To Animation, But Nice

Just in case you're interested, you can check out My Wedding Pictures Here!
I've got wedding, bachelor party, honeymoon pics and more up there on MOLI.com. I hope to have more up soon.

Shooting In Widescreen!

Hey all! Well, production has finally started! There have been a few obstacles in the film's path, but we are now moving smoothly (and almost on schedule). I have now been animating the "Interview" commercial for 2 days and it looks great. Especially since it's in 16:9. I've never shot anything this wide before, it's very different, but really fun. I'll enjoy it alot. Anyway, here are 2 shots from the commercial so far, I hope to get you guys more updates soon. There's a lot to share. Okay, ciao!

"The Interview" Storyboards

Hey hey hey! Just thought I would share 2 of my storyboard shots for "The Interview," a commercial I'm animating for MOLI.com. I've been working on making the set and will start animating next week. Robbie Broadhurst has already layed down his voice for two characters. Should be fun.

Character Sketches

Hey Everyone, I'm back, and since I obviously haven't done anything on the production the last three weeks, I figured I'd share some old character design sketches with you guys.Gonna be building sets this week and (cross your fingers) animate next week. Will hopefully have some fun stuff for you soon. Ciao!